In response to state guidelines which require senior institutions to provide two-year colleges with information on transfer students' academic performance, this report describes the procedures developed by James Madison University (JMU), in Virginia, to share information with the two-year colleges and presents results of a study of the academic performance of JMU transfers from Virginia's public two-year colleges. Following an introductory section, the report describes the methods used to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, College Credits, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges,...
In Spring 2007, the State Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges awarded the Transfer Leadership Center (TLC) study to investigate two-to-four year transfer practices and strategies. As part of the study's qualitative component, research teams from the Center for Student Success of the Research & Planning Group of the California Community Colleges conducted site visits to seven community colleges with higher-than-expected transfer rates. The site visits included extensive...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Outreach Programs, Student Characteristics, Educational Technology,...
This report focuses on the implementation of applied baccalaureate degrees at two-year colleges and includes a sample agreement from an alliance of five State University of New York (SUNY) Colleges of Technology. The report provides the following information: (1) a discussion of the objectives of implementing baccalaureate degrees at two-year colleges; (2) information on colleges that currently offer four-year degrees, indicating that 61 colleges did so in 1997; (3) a list of seven colleges...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bachelors Degrees, College Planning, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Higher...
This publication addresses 10 "front-burner" public policy issues in higher education for 1994 which were identified and discussed by higher education policy experts in two meetings during the fall of 1993. A single page at the beginning of the document presents all 10 issues in a format designed for easy photocopying or overhead projector presentation. This is followed by a series of two-page sections that treat each issue individually with a box presenting the issue "at a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Accountability, College Athletics, College Faculty, Diversity...
This paper focuses on the alternative-justification approach to debate, seeks to explore some of the objections to this approach, and considers several of the basic assumptions made by its supporters. The alternative-justification theory of debate is based on the assumption that any given question under debate has a number of affirmative plans and separate justifications. By contrast, a basic historical tenet of intercollegiate debate is that since any issue has two sides, the most effective...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Analytical Criticism, Debate, Decision Making, Higher Education, Intercollegiate...
This study investigated student-athlete perceptions of wellbeing, delimited to satisfaction regarding Athletic Department Policies and Practices, Educational Characteristics, Institutional Facilities and Services, and intent to academically persist. The study employed quantitative and qualitative data queries. This paper reports emergent findings specific to the seven student-athletes (5 male and 2 female, 4 team-sports and 3 individual-sports) who participated in the follow-up interviews....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletics, Academic Achievement, Athletes, Well Being, Persistence, Student...
This paper examines the role of state policy in influencing community college-baccalaureate transfer. It discusses the importance of two-year to four-year (2/4) transfer performance as a state policy issue, reviews national research about transfer patterns, and presents findings about state policy and transfer performance in six states. It concludes by offering recommendations to state policymakers for improving 2/4 transfer performance. Because the baccalaureate degree is becoming the entry...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Educational...
Three institutions of higher education in central Washington State designed a collaborative venture to meet the needs of placebound students working toward Bachelors degrees in early childhood education. Placebound students are defined as students who, because of time, work, and/or family commitments, are unable to enroll in college courses taught during traditional time periods on a typical college campus. The collaborative program was initiated when a state-supported four-year branch campus...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperative Programs, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Higher...
In higher education, faculty are often encouraged to collaborate with their colleagues, to--as the "American Heritage Dictionary" defines it--"work together in a joint intellectual effort." The authors often think of such projects as occurring within a department or on a particular campus, but they have discovered that even faculty in similar disciplines from different colleges can collaborate effectively, bringing their own particular strengths to that venture. In this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Public Speaking, Distance Education, Teacher Collaboration,...
Californias public and legislative demands over transfer performance as exemplified by the Partnerships for Excellence (PFE) Transfer model reflect a growing national trend. According to the Education Commission of the States, there has been a shift in the national mood from concern about fiscal accountability in education to one of educational accountability as evidenced by student outcomes. Approximately 300,000 of the nations 2.2 million students who begin postsecondary studies each year in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Admission Criteria, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community...
Community college sociologists are unnecessarily isolated from the profession. Their careers will be enriched and the quality of sociological education will be improved, if a network of them is created. Funds could be raised to provide intensive summer workshops that generate the expertise and colleagueship to establish a community of innovators. The network could develop an active person- to-person continuing education program, plus a series of monographs and media to individualize faculty...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Administration, Community Colleges, Graduate Study, Higher Education,...
This document presents the summary report of the Virginia Governor's Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics formed in response to the Knight Commission Report on intercollegiate athletics. The Governor's Commission, divided into three subcommittees, developed and revised draft recommendations, held public hearings to gather responses to the draft recommendations, and ratified a final version. The subcommittee on academics and finance addressed governance, authority, responsibility,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Athletes, Athletic Coaches, Athletics, College Athletics, College...
In 1970, prior to the 1972 enactment of Title IX, there were only 2.5 women's teams per school and a total of only about 16,000 female intercollegiate athletes. In 1977/1978, the academic year preceding the mandatory compliance date for Title IX, the number of varsity sports for women had grown to 5.61 per school. A decade later, in 1988, the number had grown to 7.71 and at the turn of the century, the growth continued to 8.14. The 2006 data show the highest ever participation by women in our...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Womens Athletics, College Athletics, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Longitudinal...
Recent research describing the landscape of honors education has demonstrated that honors programs and colleges have become an important and expanding component of American higher education. Since its inception nearly a century ago, collegiate honors education offering campus-wide curricula has spread to more than 1,500 non-profit colleges and universities (Scott and Smith, "Demography"). The National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) has served as the umbrella organization for the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Demography, Honors Curriculum, Group Membership, Comparative Analysis, Correlation,...
A model program to educate primary care nurse-practitioners for rural areas illustrates successful collaboration between university and rural health settings. Part of the Intercampus Graduate Studies program of the University of California--San Francisco School of Nursing and the University of California--San Diego School of Medicine, the model reflects concern with family health care needs in rural San Diego County. During its first year, Academic Year 85-86, the program established student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Clinical Experience, Clinics, Community Health Services, Cooperative Programs,...
The pressures engendered by the scarce resources of the 1980s demand the development of new organizational designs that respond to local cultural, economic, and social needs. In the Cumberland and Shenandoah Valleys, a four-state region containing 12 postsecondary institutions, a voluntary association of colleges was formed to solve mutual and recurring problems and derive the maximum benefit from scarce funding. Initial meetings among college representatives confirmed the benefits of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Financial...
The cooperative agricultural programs described in this report were undertaken by John Wood Community College (JWCC) as part of a "common market" instructional delivery system, which utilizes existing community resources through contractual agreements with area schools, businesses, and government agencies. The report first provides a rationale for the "common market approach," emphasizing the need to expand educational opportunities while at the same time minimizing costs...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agricultural Education, College Buildings, College School Cooperation, Community...
To clarify the athletic requirements contained in the Title IX regulations of the Education Amendment of 1972, this policy interpretation was designed to provide colleges and universities with more guidance on how to comply with the law. The obligations of colleges and universities are clarified in the following areas: student interests and abilities; athletics benefits and opportunities; and financial assistance. Although designed specifically for intercollegiate athletics, the general...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletics, College Athletics, Colleges, Compliance (Legal), Educational Legislation,...
In response to plenary session resolutions of the Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges, the Academic Senate Executive Committee prepared a paper that explores the background and purpose of the California Articulation Number (CAN) System, a cross reference course identification system for lower division, transferable, major preparation courses. The CAN System is based on course articulation--courses considered to be comparable, but not necessarily identical, and acceptable...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Articulation (Education), College Credits, College Faculty, College Transfer...
A case study of a contract college, John Wood Community College, is presented. The history of the community college movement in Illinois is traced, and the nature of state governance is examined. The Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) is the body charged with the overall regulation, supervision, and planning for the community college system. Both the ICCB and the Illinois Board of Higher Education have encouraged the sharing of resources to avoid duplication of efforts and have endorsed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Case Studies, College Planning, Community Colleges, Contract...
Based on a survey of colleges and universities, information is presented on faculty career development efforts. In addition, the following articles are presented: "Reexamining Academic Careers as a Legitimate Process," (Janet Hagberg); "Designing New Roles within Academe," (Thomas Maher); "Designing New Roles in Off-Campus Settings," (Louis Brakeman); "The Need to Rethink Faculty Careers," (Russell Edgerton); and "Planning and Action on Campus: A...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Change, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Consortia, Educational Demand,...
THE MODERN UNIVERSITY RECOGNIZES THREE MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES--TEACHING, RESEARCH, AND PUBLIC SERVICE. REPRESENTATIVES OF 14 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES MET AT NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY TO DISCUSS THE ROLE THE COLLEGE CAN PLAY IN WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY OF WHICH IT IS A PART. THIS PUBLICATION IS AN OUTGROWTH OF THAT CONFERENCE, ONE OF SEVEN CONDUCTED IN ILLINOIS UNDER A FEDERALLY-FINANCED PROGRAM DESIGNED TO TRAIN CONSULTANTS TO CITIZENS' GROUPS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizen Participation, Citizens Councils, College Faculty, Community Problems,...
THE AUTHORS PRESENT A SET OF SPECIFIC GUIDELINES WITHIN A FRAMEWORK OF FIVE PRINCIPLES. (1) MAXIMUM FREEDOM TO TRANSFER SHOULD BE PRESERVED FOR STUDENTS WHO MAKE SATISFACTORY JUNIOR COLLEGE RECORDS. ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO THE PLACE OF HIGH SCHOOL RECORDS, TEST SCORES, INSTITUTIONAL GRADE DIFFERENTIALS, FLEXIBILITY, AND METHODS OF COMPUTING GRADE POINT AVERAGES. (2) IT IS IMPORTANT TO PROVIDE AN ATMOSPHERE OF FREEDOM OF CHOICE FOR TRANSFER STUDENTS, RATHER THAN ONE OF DIRECTION OR REDIRECTION....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Articulation (Education), Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Guidelines,...
This study was undertaken to assess the educational value of an exchange program which enables teacher candidates from the University of Michigan to participate in a one-semester program of study (involving both professional and supervised teaching courses) at the University of Sheffield in England. The comparative study was designed to test the hypothesis that participants in the exchange "tend to become more sensitive and informed about domestic and international problems and more...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Attitudes, Educational Experiments, Intercollegiate Cooperation,...
The Advanced Placement Program of the College Entrance Examination Board provides a practical way for schools and colleges to create and use common definitions of college level courses, which, when completed in secondary school, prepare students for advanced study at college. The examinations are graded according to the following scale: 5 - extremely well qualified; 4 - well qualified; 3 - qualified; 2 - possibly qualified; 1 - no recommendation. This booklet offers a list of colleges with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, Advanced Students, College...
A survey was conducted to gather information about the kinds of formal and informal procedures colleges and universities follow to facilitate sharing of scientific equipment. The survey data represent weighted national estimates for 676 institutions, including all public and private universities, all medical colleges, and all four-year colleges with full-time equivalent enrollments of 2,000 or more students. The institutions that were surveyed were members of the Higher Education Panel of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperative Programs, Equipment Utilization, Higher Education, Intercollegiate...
James Cook University, Queensland, Australia (JCU) and Malaspina University College, British Columbia (MUC) have developed a partnership model for the delivery of JCU's Masters degree in education in rural studies. The course was delivered via distance education from MUC. Program evaluation was conducted via questionnaires returned by 25 students from the first 2 cohorts and interviews with JCU and MUC staff. Findings indicate that the program has generally been successful for both students and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Isolation, Higher Education,...
This report examines the collaborative program between Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) and the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia (UVA). The program began in 1997 and was designed to encourage PVCC students, particularly minority and other nontraditional students, to participate in the Introduction to Teaching course at PVCC and then to transfer to the Curry School's 5-year teacher education program. The Curry School requires completion of an undergraduate degree...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Diversity (Student), Education Majors,...
This paper presents data from a 25-year study of women in intercollegiate sports. The opportunity for female athletes to participate in intercollegiate athletics generally increased over time. The same six sports continue to be the most popular: basketball, volleyball, soccer, tennis, cross country, and softball, with soccer exhibiting the greatest growth of any sport. About 44 percent of the coaches of women's teams are female, down from 45.6 percent in 2000. When Title IX was enacted in 1972,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletic Coaches, College Athletics, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females, Higher...
The Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education is required by statute to "establish guidelines to promote and facilitate the transfer of students between institutions of higher education within the state," thus allowing students to complete a degree program in the shortest time possible whether remaining in one institution or transferring to another. These transfer guidelines are applicable to course credits and related matters for undergraduate students to want to transfer...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Attendance,...
In 1988, Assembly Bill (AB) 1725 directed the governing boards of the University of California (UC), the California State University (CSU), and the California Community Colleges to jointly develop, maintain, disseminate, and adopt a common core curriculum in general education for the purpose of facilitating student transfer between institutions. In 1986, all three academic senates had already begun work on a common curriculum in response to recommendations from California's legislative Review...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Articulation (Education), College Governing Councils, College Transfer Students,...
Community colleges can play an important role in increasing the number of people in the scientific talent pool and diversifying its ethnic and gender composition. In an effort to recruit more women and minorities into two-year college science, math, and engineering technology programs, community colleges are engaging in a wide range of special activities, such as offering vocational counseling, internships, and scholarships, as well as sponsoring on-campus events for high school students and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Articulation (Education), College Role, College School...
Designed to assist college officials in developing and revising articulation agreements, this report describes specific program articulation efforts between Illinois high schools, community colleges, and public and private universities. Data presented were drawn from a survey of 102 public and private community colleges, which resulted in 94 responses identifying 45 articulation agreements in place among responding institutions. Following an introductory discussion of articulation, the report...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, College Transfer Students,...
Ohio Dominican College in Columbus is proud of its success in the graduation of African American students. While major resources have been expended at many institutions to enroll these students, graduation rates leave much to be desired. In the fall of 1990, the Lilly Foundation began to sponsor efforts to improve the graduation rates of African Americans at some independent midwestern colleges. Since 1980, Ohio Dominican had been concentrating on improving minority participation by improving...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Persistence, Black Students, College Faculty, College Students, Cultural...
The papers in this collection describe partnership programs and projects involving Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) in Michigan. The first paper, "The Arcadia Commons Partnership: The Community College and Economic Redevelopment," by Marilyn Schlack, describes the Arcadia Commons, a business-education park in downtown Kalamazoo, developed through the combined efforts of KVCC, area business and financial institutions, and the Kalamazoo Public Museum. The Commons houses...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College School Cooperation, Community Colleges, Community Development, Consortia,...
The Napier University Business School, Edinburgh, Scotland and the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium embarked on a 3-year collaborative research project to evaluate lecturing techniques at Napier and to compare the results of the evaluation at Napier with those achieved at Leuven. Leuven had developed the EVADOC Questionnaire to monitor lecture method teaching quality in the 1970s. This questionnaire focuses on clarification of instructional aims and objectives, recognition of students'...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, College Students, Comparative Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign...
In an era of tight budgets and declining enrollments, two-year colleges are increasingly viewed as feeder schools by larger, four-year colleges and universities, and are themselves exploring the costs and benefits of cooperative arrangements. Research has isolated five general types of cooperative arrangements between two- and four-year institutions. In Type 1 (Articulation and Coordination) agreements, academic programs and services are coordinated between institutions and course contents are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Articulation (Education), College Administration, Community Colleges, Cooperative...
Designed to improve the articulation of two- and four-year college baccalaureate-oriented coursework in Illinois, this report provides background on the history and status of articulation in the state, and presents descriptions of current issues and related recommendations. First, the historical overview explains the "articulation compact" established by the Illinois Board of Education in 1970 to encourage Illinois universities to grant junior standing to transfer students who have...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Core...
Each of New Mexico's public higher education institutions was asked to provide information on their extended learning activities in 1994-95, their planned activities for 1995-96, their funding needs and priorities, and preliminary extended learning cost information. Twenty of 24 institutions were able to provide the requested information. For this survey, extended learning was defined as the full range of available and developing modes for bringing instruction to learners and includes all...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cable Television, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Educational...
The field of athletic advising has existed since the 1970s. In the early 1990s, the National Collegiate Athletic Association mandated that higher education institutions provide academic support for student-athletes. Few researchers have identified those serving as athletic advisors, so the literature features little data on advisor demographics, training, education, and work responsibilities. Therefore, the background and experiences of 277 members of the National Association of Academic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Athletics, Academic Advising, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Athletes, Team...
The guide is designed to help administrators of intercollegiate athletic programs review policies, procedures, and practices to determine if they are in compliance with Title IX's attendant regulations. The document addresses those areas of intercollegiate athletic program offerings that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare has stipulated in the Title IX Regulations. The document is divided into three basic areas: Area I is designed to obtain institutional demographic information...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Athletics, Demography, Extramural Athletics, Intercollegiate...
An educator-in-residence directed a two-year professional development program to improve college teaching and student learning. The project was administered at Brescia College (Kentucky) and involved three other colleges of comparable size and mission: St. Mary-of-the Woods College and St. Meinrad College in Indiana and St. Catharine College in Kentucky. The program included individual classroom observations, appraisals, and videotaping by colleagues; group activities, faculty seminars, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Classroom Observation Techniques, College Instruction,...
This final report describes a project of the City University of New York's Faculty Advancement Program (FAP) to encourage dissertation completion by ABD (all but dissertation) faculty at seven institutions in four northeastern states. The institutions were visited and revisited by FAP mentors in the effort to establish dissertation completion programs modeled on FAPs own dramatically successful group project. Dissemination workshops were conducted which featured simulated, role-played,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Demonstration Programs, Doctoral Dissertations, Faculty Development,...
In overcoming the physical limitations of a single campus, distance education promises to diversify the student population, exposing students to a wider array of experiences and backgrounds. This paper reports how adequately distance education technology fulfilled that promise in a joint seminar in American politics that included students at the University of Florida and the University of Calgary (Canada). Students in the two locations were connected to each other and to the instructors at both...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Mediated Communication, Course Objectives, Distance Education, Higher...
The Annual Partnership Report is a collection of all established partnerships that Wyoming community colleges cultivated and maintained for fiscal year 2004. Serving as transfer preparation institutions, vocational educators, providers of workforce training and personal development education, and cultural centers, Wyoming comprehensive community colleges recognize the need for collaboration, diversity, and cooperation. Recognizing this, Wyoming community colleges have established and maintain...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Partnerships in Education, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Postsecondary Education,...
In 2006, UPAEP (Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla) and OSU (Oklahoma State University) signed a MOU (memorandum of understanding) to develop more than 20 dual master's degree programs. This special partnership has allowed students from Mexico and the United States to study two master degree programs, in two languages, in two countries and in approximately two years. Five years ago, both higher education institutions realize that allowing students to travel between two countries...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, International Programs, Dual Enrollment, Land...
This publication contains the following: (1) Competency-Based Transfer Pilot Project--Final Report. Executive Summary (January 2006); and (2) Competency-Based Transfer Pilot Project: Final Report on House Bill 1909 (January 2005). In 2003, the legislature and governor enacted House Bill 1909 to create a pilot project on competency-based transfer between two- and four-year colleges and universities. The legislation directed the Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) to select institutions to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Pilot Projects, College Transfer Students, Competency Based Education, Criminology,...
Texas relies heavily on its community colleges to provide low-cost access to undergraduate coursework for students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Yet, while the majority of Texas students who enter higher education through a community college enroll in transfer programs, only 35 percent transfer and only 15 percent earn a bachelor's degree within six years of starting at a community college. The Greater Texas Foundation asked the Community College Research Center (CCRC) to conduct an analysis of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Success, Undergraduate Students, State...
E-learning has become an increasingly important teaching and learning mode in educational institutions and corporate training. The evaluation of e-learning, however, is essential for the quality assurance of e-learning courses. This paper constructs a four-phase evaluation model for e-learning courses, which includes planning, development, process, and product evaluation, called the PDPP evaluation model. Planning evaluation includes market demand, feasibility, target student group, course...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Technical Support, Web...
In 1973, 180 independent two-year colleges with membership in the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC) were surveyed to determine the extent of cooperative arrangements. Forty-five colleges (25 percent) reported 207 programs of interinstitutional cooperation. In a second survey of state directors of public two-year colleges, 321 institutions reported a total of 328 programs. Overall, cooperating private colleges average four programs per institution, while cooperating...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Education, College Admission, College Faculty, Consortia, Cooperative...
